Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 93.djvu/91

 PUBLIC LAW 96-22—JUNE 13, 1979

93 STAT. 59

"§ 5009. Garages and parking facilities 38 USC 5009. "(a) The Administrator may construct, alter, operate, and maintain, on reservations of medical facilities, garages and parking facilities for the accommodation of privately owned vehicles of employees of such facilities and vehicles of visitors and other individuals having business at such facilities. "(b)(1) The Administrator may establish and collect (or provide for Fees. the collection of) fees for the use of such garages and parking facilities at such rate or rates which the Administrator determines would be reasonable under the particular circumstances; but no fee may be charged for the accommodation of any publicly or privately owned vehicle used in connection with the transportation of a veteran to or from any medical facility for the purposes of examination or treatment or in connection with any visit to any patient in such facility. Employees using such garages shall make such reimbursement therefor as the Administrator may deem reasonable. "(2) The Administrator may contract, by lease or otherwise, with Lease of parking responsible persons, firms, or corporations for the operation of such facilities. parking facilities, under such terms and conditions as the Administrator shall prescribe, and without regard to the laws concerning advertising for competitive bids. "(c)(1) There are authorized to be appropriated such amounts as are Appropriation necessary to finance in part the construction, alteration, operation, authorization. and maintenance of garages and parking facilities (other than the construction or alteration of any garage or parking facility involving the expenditure of more than $2,000,000). Amounts appropriated Revolving fund under the authority of this section, and all income from fees collected for the use of such garages and parking facilities, shall be administered as a revolving fund to effectuate the provisions of this section, but only to the extent provided for in appropriation Acts. "(2) The revolving fund shall be deposited in a checking account with the Treasurer of the United States, except that such amounts thereof as the Administrator may determine to be necessary to establish and maintain operating accounts for the various garages and parking facilities may be placed in depositories selected by the Administrator. "§5010. Operation of medical facilities "(a)(1) The Administrator, subject to the approval of the President, is authorized to establish and operate not less than one hundred and twenty-five thousand hospital beds in medical facilities over which the Administrator has direct jurisdiction for the care and treatment of eligible veterans. The Administrator shall staff and maintain, in such a manner as to ensure the immediate acceptance and timely and complete care of patients, sufficient beds and other treatment capacities to accommodate, and provide such care to, eligible veterans applying for admission and found to be in need of hospital care or medical services. "(2) The Administrator shall maintain the bed and treatment capacities of all Veterans' Administration medical facilities so as to ensure the accessibility and availability of such beds and treatment capacities to eligible veterans in all States and to minimize delays in admissions and in the provision of hospital, nursing home, and domiciliary care, and of medical services furnished pursuant to section 612 of this title. "(3) The Chief Medical Director shall periodically analyze agencywide admission policies and the records of those eligible

38 USC 5010.

38 USC 612; ante, p. 47. Analysis of treatment facilities.

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